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Password expiration policy for Sharepoint/Farm administrators

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We are running sharepoint server 2010 in our company, all going good. But our Active directory administrator has decided to implement the password expiration policy for all AD users. All users password in AD will expires after some days. My question is that
what precations should i take for Sharepiont users like SP_Admin, SP_Farm, SP_ServiceApps to run everything smoothly for sharepoint web applications, site collections, even the password expires every month in password expiration policy.

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In your first thread you said sharepoint will take care off the password change and i can change the password or even in password expiration policy. Because of these user how an AD Administrator can stop this policy just because of these three users
for the whole company. Can he omitt only sharepoint users and can impose the policy on rest of the employees of Password expiration policy ???.

I mean can AD administrator apply this policy for all employees except these sharepoint users???

Thanks in advance.

Yes, all your administrator needs to do is check the box that says "Password does not expire" on the particular account in ADUC.

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You need to use Managed Account for these accounts . In managed account if the password is going to expire then SharePoint itself change password
for those accounts prior to expire. You not need to worry about these.

Not all service accounts in use by SharePoint can have their password automatically changed. Your Active Directory admin should understand that service accounts generally need to be marked with 'password does not expire' in AD.

In your first thread you said sharepoint will take care off the password change and i can change the password or even in password expiration policy. Because of these user how an AD Administrator can stop this policy just because of these three users
for the whole company. Can he omitt only sharepoint users and can impose the policy on rest of the employees of Password expiration policy ???.

I mean can AD administrator apply this policy for all employees except these sharepoint users???

In your first thread you said sharepoint will take care off the password change and i can change the password or even in password expiration policy. Because of these user how an AD Administrator can stop this policy just because of these three users
for the whole company. Can he omitt only sharepoint users and can impose the policy on rest of the employees of Password expiration policy ???.

I mean can AD administrator apply this policy for all employees except these sharepoint users???

Thanks in advance.

Yes, all your administrator needs to do is check the box that says "Password does not expire" on the particular account in ADUC.